Time course of early mesopic adaptation to luminance decrements and recovery of spatial resolution

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 22, 2000, Pages 3059-3064

  Howard, Celeste M ^a   Tregear, Stephen J ^b   Werner, John S ^b  

^a Link Simulation and Training   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Contrast sensitivity; Dark adaptation; Light adaptation; Mesopic sensitivity; Night vision; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

RETINAL;

AGING; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT ADAPTATION; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

EID: 0033857250     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00153-X     Document Type: Article

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